Wildlife - Professional

Roie Galitz Israel 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement "Polar Bears Romance" Polar Bear male and female in a whiteout in Svalbard

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Matthew Smith Australia 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence "Breathe" Under the watchful eye of its mother below me, this newborn and curious humpback whale calf swam a full 360 degrees around me as I tread water, it never took its eye off me. Vava'u Tonga.

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Joseph Anthony UK 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction "Border Refuge" Mai Po Nature Reserve Frontier Closed Area Boundary between Hong Kong and China. 3 years to make.

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Mofeed Shalwa Saudi Arabia Honorable Mention "Wolf Spider" I photographed this spider in a rain forest taman Negara in Malaysia ,, Wolf spiders are members of

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Honorable Mention "Life is good" Svalbard, Norway

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Andrey Gudkov Russia Honorable Mention "Snow kapellmeister" Japan. Hokkaido

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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention "Silent Giant" With tusks weighing a record 200 lbs. or more, Craig may be the largest tusked elephant on Earth.

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Steve Gosling UK Honorable Mention "Snorkel" A male elephant playing in the Chobe River dived under water & used its trunk as a snorkel

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Debby Thomas USA Honorable Mention "Flamingo Flower" Resting Flamingo

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Mel Karlberg USA Honorable Mention "Seeing you seeing me" I'm usually the camouflaged one watching the wildlife, but this deer flipped the roles.

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Carol Taylor UK Honorable Mention "Bison Blizzard" Yellowstone February 2020 near hot spring so creating more frost in blizzard conditions

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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention "Wisdom's Keepers" The younger elephants are flanked by older members of their herd as a way of protecting them.

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention "big games" two young elephants play with their powers

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Roie Galitz Israel Honorable Mention "Arctic Fox" Arctic Fox yawning in Svalbard

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Cheraine Collette Netherlands Honorable Mention "Fierce" This magnificent couple was photographed in a zoo, together as a means to enforce the power and strength they have together as one.

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Robert Coates Canada Honorable Mention "Bracing For The Storm" Created on the Big Island of Hawaii as the Parker Ranch horses huddled before the oncoming storm.

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Craig Blacklock USA Honorable Mention "Trumpeter Swans" Trumpeter swans at sunset, St. Croix River, Wisconsin

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Stuart Vesty USA Honorable Mention "El Ghazi" Arabian Stallion

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Scott Portelli Australia Honorable Mention "Bubble blowing" Humpback releasing a huge air bubble while in a Competitive group of whales

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Honorable Mention "Eagle fight 2" Eagles fighting over kill

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Alain Ernoult France Honorable Mention "Complicity" WHITE BEAR POLAR BEAR (URSUS WALKING THROUGH THE BANQUISE ALONG THE SHORES OF HUDSON’S BAY

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Honorable Mention "Mandril Alpha" Mandril is more than just a pretty face. He's a dominant male who sires offspring.

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Marilyn Maxwell USA Honorable Mention "Defender of the Realm" This young cub displayed all the fierceness for which the species is known.

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Alain Ernoult France Honorable Mention "The Lion Jump" LION IN SAVANNAH. SOUTH AFRICA VULNERABLE (IUCN)

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Nicky Ryan Australia Honorable Mention "Release the Bats" I was on a photographic assignment for Australian Traveller magazine up in Kakadu, Australia.

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Todd McVey USA Honorable Mention "Birds & Lighthouse"

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Honorable Mention "In flight" Great grey owl hunting

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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention "Earthly Allure" A surreal scene of a lone horse comfortably at ease beneath the mighty Skógafoss waterfall.

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Jonathan Banks UK Honorable Mention "Sandwiched bacon" Piglets sandwiched together as they filter out of the barn

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Steve Gosling UK Honorable Mention "At Full Stretch" I liked the graphic nature of the scene as a giraffe reached out to it's maximum height whilst eating

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Drew Doggett USA Honorable Mention "The Gathering" Elephants pack themselves under a lone Acacia tortilis tree waiting for the afternoon sun to pass.

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Kristen Warning USA Honorable Mention "Peaceful Boundary" Barbs on the fence frame the summer landscape of grazing horses.

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Alain Ernoult France Nominee "Head in the Clouds" GIRAFFE IN THE NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA. TANZANIE, VULNERABLE (IUCN)

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Annabelle Art Gallery France Nominee "One day I will fly away" Giraffes are often surrounded by oxpeckers. This giraffe was standing by the river in Ruaha National Park (Tanzania) to get some water when I captured this moment.

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Concentration" A lioness doesn't break her concentration on a nearby gazelle -

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Gazelles in High Alert" Three gazelles in high alert while the scent of a lion is in the air -

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Into the Wind" A Sandhill Crane lifts off into the wind in Bosque del Apache, NM

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Leopard Hunt" A leopard slinks around a bush while tracking a gazelle in the Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Annie Katz USA Nominee "Majesty" A Sandhill Crane spreads its wings before taking flight in Bosque del Apache, NM

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "The Mother" Female leopard looking for prey for her cubs

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "Superior" Dominant male lion. Maasai Mara, Kenya.

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee "Summer night" Svalbard, Norway

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Bahaadeen M. Al Qazwini Kuwait Nominee "Zebra Texture and Patterns D New" Zebras gathered in pool of water for drinking in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

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Baroness Danute Federas USA Nominee "Dancing Cranes in snow storm" The Japaniies Cranes are so graceful and Beautiful they dance & bow after the finish the dance.

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Brice Pennington USA Nominee "Low Tide" South Texas Gulf coast area

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Carol Walker USA Nominee "Black Sable Island Stallion Turns" A wild Sable Island stallion turns his head

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Carol Walker USA Nominee "Wild Glory" A wild blue roan stallion turns his head in the Red Desert of Wyoming

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Carol Walker USA Nominee "The White Stallion's Mane" A white Andalusian stallion runs in an arena in Spain

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Carol Walker USA Nominee "Two Andalusian Stallions" Two Andalusian stallions, brothers, come together in an arena in Spain

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Caroline Guinan Ireland Nominee "Serengeti Zebra" Photograph taken in the Serengeti National after a stampede of Zebra

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David Kennedy UK Nominee "Chilling" Resting on the street in the middle of the day, Jaisalmer

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Deborah Welsh USA Nominee "Elephant's Blind Eye" Chaing Mai Elephant Nature Park Sanctuary

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee "Guineafowl"

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Glimmer" The all-white horses of Camargue are known for their boldness, strength, and defined features.

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Ocean Escape" This lone white horse running across volcanic black sand appears guided by an internal compass.

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Land of Kings" There are only an estimated 24 super tusk elephants such as Craig (pictured here) left on Earth.

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Drew Doggett USA Nominee "Pride of Tsavo" Elephants throw dirt onto their backs to cool themselves in a lively ritual of self-care.

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Durga Garcia USA Nominee "Brown Leghorn" 2 week old Brown Leghorn chick

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Gorazd Golob Slovenia Nominee "Fiction"

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Gorazd Golob Slovenia Nominee "Mirror more" Amboseli water reflections

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Graham Eaton UK Nominee "Lionfish Hunting" A Lionfish, slowly approaching a school of baitfish, a predator. Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.

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Graham Eaton UK Nominee "Napoleonfish" A large Napoleon Wrasse in dark water. Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt

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Graham Eaton UK Nominee "Alien" Looking upwards to the sky at a Common Jellyfish. Suspended, slowly moving with the tide.

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Guy Brooksbank USA Nominee "Wakoda" Egret, Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida USA

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Ilan Wittenberg New Zealand Nominee "Yawning Camel" The Pyramid of Giza os the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence

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Jan Lehne Norway Nominee "What are you looking at" South Africa safari

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "Proboscis Monkey Borneo" Proboscis monkey in Borneo regurgitates poison mangrove leaf.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee "Capuchin Monkey Awareness" Habitat loss is the greatest threat to all species of monkey.

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Kim Vickrey USA Nominee "Celebration" Exuberant Stallion Running Free

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Lou Novick USA Nominee "North american Buafflo"

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Nominee "Take off madness" A group of geese takes off in Senegal

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Matthew Smith Australia Nominee "Glide" Humpback whale calf’s can be very curious, playful and often clumsy as they learn how to coordinate their bodies. This one took a moment of grace is rolled beside me. Vava'u Tonga.

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Morten Saele Norway Nominee "Life is sheep" Free range sheep in Sysendalen, Norway

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Nicola Majocchi USA Nominee "Ducks In A Raw" A vintage moment of a large family of ducks crossing the road in orderly fashion. Santa Barbara, CA

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Olga Nebot Australia Nominee "Gentoo Mates" From my personal work, Photographing Antartica, Cuverville Island Gentoo Colony.

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Olga Nebot Australia Nominee "Leading" From my personal work, capturing India Scenery

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee "Family Gathering" Tanzania

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Impala Reflection" Reflections in a pool of water

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Shade?" Zebra trying to find shade

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Sub Adult Leopard" Young Leoparad checking out the territory

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "Love Snarls" Lions taking a break from mating

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee "I See You"

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Peter Delaney South Africa Nominee "Bonds of Love " Elephant herd rallies around to protect a few day old baby from the unwanted attention of a Bull Ele

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Philippa Davin Sweden Nominee "See You" I see you

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Ruud Peters France Nominee "Thinking away"

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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee "inverted" Humpback whale suspended inverted with rostrum on the reef

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Scott Portelli Australia Nominee "Remora" Remora attached to a young calf, cleaning and hitching a ride

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Serge Melesan France Nominee "Looking for male" A female sealion looking for male

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Serge Melesan France Nominee "At the surface" A lemon shark under the surface

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Serge Melesan France Nominee "Spaceship underwater" A whale shark of La Paz

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Serge Melesan France Nominee "Bullshark dance" A group of twenty bullsharks dance around my head

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Seth Benson USA Nominee "Mother Grizzly"

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Shokoufeh Malekkiani Iran Nominee "Wisdom-From Nomadic Horses Series"

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Steve Gosling UK Nominee "Follow Me" Two Hippos on the banks of the Chobe River looking like a scene from Noahs Ark

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Steve Hoskins UK Nominee "Mondrian Ant"

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Toby Nicholls Australia Nominee "Massage" Massage in Bali

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Tom Krausz Germany Nominee "Doppelhornvogel" Birds in danger, work of portraits, 2018/19 made in Germany

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "portrait" The black body, the white mane, and the clear eyes were very impressive.

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee "sleep" The snow that falls silently. She fell asleep as usual.

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Victoria Hillman UK Nominee "Fly by" Wild juvenile lammergeier flying overhead against a clear sky.

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Wendi Schneider USA Nominee "Thoughts of Silence" Pigment ink on kozo over white gold from the Evenings with the Moon exhibit

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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee "Emperor Shrimp" shrimp, underwater, wildlife, sea, ocean, science, nature, crustaceans, beautiful

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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee "Ortmann's Spider Crab" Ortmann's spider crab, crab, spider crab, sea, underwater, wildlife, science, crustaceans

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